Friday, 29 April 2011

WEDDING DAY BLUES

Wedding what wedding,I forgot all about it and found myself on the cliffs watching whitethroats and lesser whitethroats,peregrines and ravens,swallows and a ring ouzel,by the time I remembered it was too late, oh dear,sorry William and Kate.Before heading for home to watch the highlights and attend the street party,there was just time to find my first adonis and small blue butterflies,on the lower tramway.The clifftop flora has also made great strides this week with nottingham catchfly,sain foin,and red valerian blooming.

WHITETHROAT IN SONG

LESSER WHITETHROAT RATTLING

PEREGRINE assumed to be the male standing guard was here at 9 30 and was still there at 11 on my return.

GRASS LARK

CHORTLING CHAFFINCH

SMALL BLUE

ADONIS BLUE

SMALL BLUE

SMALL BLUE

ST MARKS FLY so called because it appears around 21st April St Marks Day.There are millions of them this year ,they are quite large flies with long dangly legs,you may have seen them.

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About Me

born and bred in Dover, educated at Dover grammar school, early interest in all sports , nature and steam trains. I lived very close to the railway line at Tower Hamlets. On leaving school I found a career in local govt as a building inspector working at Dover, Ashford and Shepway councils, retiring after forty years service in 2006. I played football in the kent amateur league for crabble athletic, cricket for dover cosmopolitans, and late in life discovered the joys of rugby playing for Dovers lower sides into my forties.
I have two sons Colin and Philip[packet]and am in a relationship with Cathy.
Birdwatching began seriously in my late teens when Spud Taylor introduced me to the song of the willow warbler , terns at sandwich bay, redshanks and snipe at stodmarsh and shelduck at nagden and apart from when rugby became all consuming I have been a birder ever since. Since retiring I have spent most of my time wandering around East Kent watching and now photographing birds and butterflies. I am a volunteer ranger at Samphire
Hoe on a tuesday where my claim to fame is finding a hoopoe in august 2009.